Hello Readers! If you’re a regular visitor, you might remember I said I was trying to limit my ARCs (advanced readers copies) to 2-3 per month. While I’ve been able to keep that goal through the rest of the year (so far), January and February’s ARCs stacked up. It was actually watching them stack up …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Epic Romances Written Before I Was Born
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books Written Before I Was Born (These can be books youβve read or want to read!) (submitted by Davida Chazan @ The Chocolate Ladyβs Book …
January 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! It took me a little longer to get back into the “normal” swing of things after the holidays. I started the month in a bit of a reading slump, but thanks to my January ARCs demanding my attention, I pushed through it, traveling to all kinds of different destinations. And despite the fact …
ARC Book Review | Hadley & Grace by Suzanne Redfearn
Title: Hadley & GraceAuthor: Suzanne Redfearn Genre: FictionPublished On: February 1, 2021Publisher: Lake Union PublishingSource: digitalPages: 344 Synopsis: The author of In an Instant delivers a heart-pounding and emotional roller-coaster ride of self-discovery in the tradition of Thelma and Louise. Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. …
ARC Book Review | Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Title: Big Girl, Small TownAuthor: Michelle Gallen Genre: FictionPublished On: December 1, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physicalPages: 320 Synopsis: Meet Majella OβNeill, a heroine like no other, in this captivating Irish debut that has been called Milkman meets Derry Girls. Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, away from her neighborsβ stares and the gossips of the small town in …
Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020. Hello Readers! How is it almost the end of January?? Is it just me, or is this month flying by? …
ARC Book Review | Happy Singles Day by Ann Marie Walker
Title: Happy Singles DayAuthor: Ann Marie Walker Genre: RomancePublished On: January 19, 2021Publisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaSource: digitalPages: 240 Synopsis: Single and proud of it! Oh, oops… As a Certified Professional Organizer, everything in Paige Parker’s world is as it should be. Perfect apartment, perfect office, perfect life. And now, the perfect vacation planned to honor Singles Day. …
ARC Book Review | What Could Be Saved by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
Title: What Could Be SavedAuthor: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Genre: Literary, Historical FictionPublished On: January 12, 2021Publisher: Atria BooksSource: digitalPages: 460 Synopsis: An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok in 1972 and Washington, DC, in 2019 about an expatriate child who goes missing, whose family is contacted decades later by a man claiming to be the vanished …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2020 (i.e. Books I’m Embarrassed I Haven’t Read Yet)
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didnβt Get To (You could take this opportunity to tell us whatβs left on your seasonal TBRs …
ARC Book Review | The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous
Title: The Perfect GuestsAuthor: Emma Rous Genre: MysteryPublished On: January 12, 2021Publisher: Berkley BooksSource: digitalPages: 400 Synopsis: The USA Today bestselling author of The Au Pair returns with another delicious, twisty novelβabout a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game. 1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years …